General intelligence just means a model that can seek an objective in broader problem spaces. GPT-4, for instance, is able to predict text for many things, like

General intelligence just means a model that can seek an objective in broader problem spaces. GPT-4, for instance, is able to predict text for many things, like poetry, tutoring, trivia, coding, how-to guides and in different languages and subject matters. This makes it more general than a model that is limits to a single subject, or language, etc. So general intelligence is more a spectrum than a simple boolean. Consciousness, while philosophically interesting, doesn't necessarily correlate with the risk a general intelligences causing harm.